Staff

Daniel Goldscheider is founder and Executive Director of the OpenWallet Foundation. Before that he was CEO of yes.com, an open banking scheme, and co-founded Mediaguide with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers as well as Aureus Private Equity.

He is a Vice Chair of the Supervisory Board of Valamar Riviera d.d., Croatia’s largest tourism company and served on the board of Identity Trust Management AG and the Global Footprint Network.

Ruth’s experience over the last 17 years focuses on Internet Governance Policy (Internet Number Resources & Domain Names), Digital Identity Management, Standardization and Certification, Innovation Research & Development on Trust, Privacy, and Cybersecurity. She is skilled in Government Engagement, International Relations, Stakeholder Management, Leading Strategic Projects, and Executive Program Management.

She loves being part of the communities contributing to Internet development, promoting an open, safe, stable, human-centric Internet, and helping drive trust.

As Senior Advisor of the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee Secretariat, she helped advance the members on DNS public policy in light of the new gTLDs.

She led multistakeholder cooperation mechanisms with the governments and main Latin America and Caribbean stakeholders towards Internet development, contributing to a smooth transition to IPv6 (LACNIC and LACTLD). She also helped the Chilean Top Level Domain to implement the Registry/Registrar model. She worked at the United States Department of Homeland & Security and European Union Innovation Programs on Cybersecurity, Trust, and Privacy.
She has been helping communities in various jurisdictions to embrace trust and compliance with identity verification and privacy standards for the US NIST 800-63 (Kantara Initiative Inc.), UK Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework (Kantara Initiative Ltd), and Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (DIACC).

Ry Jones is a senior community architect at the Hyperledger Foundation, an open source collaborative effort to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies¹². He has been involved in open source projects for over a decade, contributing to various initiatives such as Minifabric, a tool to set up and manage Hyperledger Fabric networks³. He is passionate about building and supporting open source communities, and sharing his knowledge and experience with others.

Source: Conversation with Bing, 8/6/2023

(1) Blog – Hyperledger Foundation. https://www.hyperledger.org/news/blog.

(2) Hyperledger – Hyperledger – Hyperledger Foundation. https://wiki.hyperledger.org/.

(3) GitHub – hyperledger-labs/minifabric: Do fabric network the right and …. https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/minifabric.

A seasoned executive with 20+ years of experience at the cutting edge of digital innovation including social/experiential platforms, web monetization, decentralized identity, and open source. In recent years Sean has led teams working on the future of web sustainability and user agency at Mozilla, and advised IEEE Ethics in Autonomous Systems (AI) working group on privacy/personal data concepts.

Sean is the Community Architect for the OpenWallet Foundation, where he works with the OWF projects, sponsors and community to bring the future of open source digital wallets to market.